CommonWealth Kitchen is a food business incubator, brand accelerator, and food manufacturing social enterprise in the business of helping aspiring entrepreneurs build and scale great food companies. We work with 50+ member businesses, providing them with fully-equipped kitchens, plus integrated business and technical support. That’s WHAT we DO.

But our success building over 100 food companies lies in our enormously inspiring community of entrepreneurs who dare to dream. They have passion, determination, drive, and focus. They take risks. They’re resilient, indefatigable, collaborative, and endlessly optimistic. They have to be- because building a successful food company is HARD!

Collette DiVitto is the embodiment of CWK’s work and mission. After struggling through years of being turned down for jobs because people couldn’t see past her Down’s syndrome, Collette turned this experience into motivation to start her cookie company to build a future of her own making.

Like all of our entrepreneurs, Collette is fearless, focused and determined. Collette is proof that great entrepreneurs can break through obstacles to build their dreams. We are thrilled to be working with Collette to help scale her recipe and manage production to fill the 50,000+ orders she got BEFORE her story appeared on CBS Evening News and Good Morning America- with more to come!

Collette’s story of perseverance and tenacity is only the latest in an endless supply of inspirational stories we witness every day.

We also have people like Omar Credle, who overcame chronic homelessness, incarceration and drug addiction to start a food truck because no one would hire him. We have FreshFood Generation, a catering company who opened a retail café inside a community health center in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Boston in order to bring healthy food options to patients and staff. We have Grace Connor’s little G ice cream, which she started as a high school student for focus and motivation while battling cancer. Our collaborative, inclusive entrepreneurship model opens doors of opportunity for people from all walks of life who have been impacted by racial, social or economic inequality to build a future of their own making.

We are privileged and honored to get to work with such amazing and inspiring entrepreneurs every day.